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title: Even foreign candles gave so much clearer light than the smoky open… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Even foreign candles gave so much clearer light than the smoky open lamps, filled with the native bean or cottonseed oil, that her room seemed brilliantly illuminated even though she had only a tiny lamp or a candle on its table. Who acts: foreign candles, Russell. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chin
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 99

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Even foreign candles gave so much clearer light than the smoky open lamps, filled with the native bean or cottonseed oil, that her room seemed brilliantly illuminated even though she had only a tiny lamp or a candle on its table.

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**Who acts:** foreign candles, Russell · **What happens:** give, fill, illuminate, lamp · **To what, where:** clearer light, smoky open lamps, room, table

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign candles, Russell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:3:99
# text = Even foreign candles gave so much clearer light than the smoky open lamps, filled with the native bean or cottonseed oil, that her room seemed brilliantly illuminated even though she had only a tiny lamp or a candle on its table.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	smoky	smoky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	cottonseed	cottonseed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
31	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | foreign candles | clearer light |  |  |  | than the smoky open lamps | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | the smoky open lamps *not said here* |  |  |  | with the native bean or cottonseed oil | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bean=Instrument |
| 3 | **illuminate** | past · passive |  | Russell's room |  | lamp's table |  | brilliantly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **lamp** | past | Russell |  |  |  |  | a candle *conj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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